Re: global (MacOS Style) menubar applet

[Nathan Hurst <njh hawthorn csse monash edu au>]

On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:

> I suspect you'll find this is not universally true. There are more
> mnemonic icons than key combinations. Heavens knows how many Gnome
> programs I have beginning with the letter 'G' and there aren't that many
> key combinations that involve 'G' -- so eventually I'd have to pick
> non-intuitive ones even before running out ... "is Ctrl-Alt-G gnorpm or
> gnucash? .. oh dear ... if only I had an icon of a dollar sign for
> gnucash and an rpm icon for gnorpm I'd be able to remember." :-)

I thought that was called the panel?  and toolbars are the icony things in
programs?

> And I can't make it easier by having tooltips for key combinations. :-)

/me pictures little flags popping out of his keyboard when fingers
approach...

njh